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Gatehouse, stables and flanking walls at Banwell Castle

A Grade II* Listed Building in Banwell, North Somerset

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.3241 / 51°19'26"N

Longitude: -2.8608 / 2°51'38"W

OS Eastings: 340112

OS Northings: 158688

OS Grid: ST401586

Mapcode National: GBR JC.WWMP

Mapcode Global: VH7CM.CZG9

Plus Code: 9C3V84FQ+MM

Entry Name: Gatehouse, stables and flanking walls at Banwell Castle

Listing Date: 9 February 1961

Grade: II*

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1320658

English Heritage Legacy ID: 33348

ID on this website: 101320658

Location: Banwell, North Somerset, BS29

County: North Somerset

Civil Parish: Banwell

Traditional County: Somerset

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Somerset

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Description


ST 45 NW
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BANWELL
CASTLE HILL (south side)
Gatehouse, stables and flanking walls at Banwell Castle

9.2.61

GV
II*
Gatehouse, stables and flanking walls. Circa 1848. Rubble, freestone dressings. Chamfered double arch below parapet between circular embattled towers decorated with cross loops, that to left has ground floor slit windows; cast iron gates with heraldic motifs; from within arch, flights of steps rise into each tower through chamfered, round headed openings; to right a heavily embattled wall curves round to the tower on the west wall (q.v.); to left a larger, two storey embattled drum tower single light windows adjoins a hexagonal turret with a capping small circular turret; to left of this, an embattled wall pierced by round headed lancets for stables up to a buttress, plain thereafter the wall runs on to the dairy (q.v.); behind wall to left of gatehouse are plain lean-to altered stables.

Listing NGR: ST4011258688

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